Findings From the Web Design Survey
In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted a survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of web design and development as practiced in the U.S. and worldwide.
33,000 responses is a lot of data. To make sense of it, An Event Apart commissioned statisticians Alan Brickman and Larry Yu to translate raw data into meaningful findings. Here we present what they found.
A List Apart — 82 page finding. Raw data available in various formats.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) provides the flexibility to choose from a number of different instance types to meet your computing needs. Each instance provides a predictable amount of dedicated compute capacity and is charged per instance-hour consumed.
Amazon.com — This is interesting. Out of beta and three service levels.
Apple to open iPhone, iPod touch to third-party developers in early 2008
Steve Jobs today announced that Apple is working on a software development kit (SDK) for the iPhone and iPod touch so that third-party developers can build native applications for the devices. The SDK is on track for a February 2008 release, after the annual Macworld Apple-fest takes place in January 2008.
Does this surprise anyone? Really?
15 Ridiculously Useful Websites
A diverse list of useful websites to make life a little easier.
Garrett B Santos, Web Upon
Developer's Notebook: Forward-thinking CSS float-clearing
The art of float-clearing - getting containers to honor the height of floated elements inside of them - has slowly evolved over the past several years as Safari has taken over many Mac desktops, IE5/Mac has atrophied, IE7 has slowly caught on, and our use of CSS filters has improved. I’d like to share a slight variation on the state of the art that I believe makes for much cleaner markup.
Agile Ajax
The basic concept remains the same as with Sitemap Styler, but the usage is a bit wider. We can use this script for any type of content that needs to be organized in some sort of hierarchy.
Css Globe
Following great success in 2007, Web Directions North returns in January 2008 for another year of enlightenment, inspiration, networking, and of course snowboarding
Cruciforum is really, really simple. There’s no database required to run it — you don’t need MySQL or anything — it doesn’t have user accounts, it doesn’t need an administrator. It’s really low-impact on your server because all the pages are plain HTML – if someone’s browsing the forum then they don’t even use PHP! Just fire it up and go; all you need on the server is PHP support, which most things have.
Group task management,share tasks, online to do list
Introducing TaskBin, the only way to manage tasks while working in groups. Think of it as the ultimate shared to-do list.
Taskbin.com — I don’t know if it’s the only way, but…
25 Tutorials For The Web MindedMashable
250 Tools and Resources For Coding the WebMashable — Maybe you should just to the the Mashable website, and I’ll stop mentioning these for a while?
Thinkspotting / Recent Top Ideas
Competitive mini-blogging for ideas.
Google is destroying the web and you don't even know it
Google is good. Too good. Every day, 10 hundred million billion searches are conducted on the website google.com. So many searches are conducted, it’s the main gate to the internet for almost everyone on the planet.
Alex Bosworth
Minimalist Website Design Patterns at Max Kiesler
Do you want your website to be beautiful, SEO friendly and fast loading? Try a true minimalist approach. Total, complete and utter minimalism is a high mark to meet in any medium.
Max Kiesler
How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison
Famous inventor Thomas Edison is probably the most experienced note-taker in the world. His diary which is still maintained as an important part of the United States historical record contains five million (5,000,000) pages. Important developments such as his work on perfecting the light bulb and electric lighting systems are captured in great detail.
lifehack.org
Podia is a Wikipedia viewer for your iPod touch. With this application, you can view articles in an optimized layout, find certain text in the article, and save the article as a data URL for offline reading.
Blackwater 'Actually Drew Their Weapons On U.S. Soldiers.'
The colonel was furious. “Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers.” He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad’s Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV.
Crooks and Liars
Why Blog Post Frequency Does Not Matter Anymore
You cannot be successful if you do not go by the rule post to your blog daily, right? RIGHT?
Wrong. Daily posts are a legacy of a Web 1.0 mindset and early Web 2.0 days (meaning 12 months ago!). The pressure around posting frequency will ultimately become a significant barrier to the maturity of blogging. Here are 10 reasons why.
Eric Kintz, Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog — Lucky for me.
I bought this book because I heard it described on the radio (NPR, no less) in a way that made it sound like the dumbest book of the decade. It turns out that it was the summary, and not the book, that was dumb. Indeed, this is a fantastic book by an extremely smart and experienced liberal. It is the first book on the Corruption Required Reading list.
Lessig Blog
JavaScript Persistent Object Notation (JSPON) is a convention for using JSON to facilitate JavaScript referencing and complex object types to provide the necessary semantics needed for efficient and meaningful persistent objects.
New to me.
Apple - Mac OS X Leopard - Features - 300 New Featuresonly 300
